The primary Yenagoa E-book & Arts Pageant (YEBAF) with the theme 'Resilience: How Storytelling Shapes Our Lives' will happen from September 23 to 26 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The competition is devoted to 2 cultural icons from the Niger Delta, eminent historian Prof. EJ Alagoa and the late Dr. Gabriel Okara, and can coincide with the 2024 convention and annual normal assembly of the Community of E-book Golf equipment and Studying Promoters in Nigeria (NBRP).
Nevertheless, the theme of the convention is 'The love of books and the vital college in operating guide golf equipment'.
Annette David-West, Pageant Director and Head of the 1402Book Lounge Initiative which is organising the occasion, revealed that it’s partnering with the Bayelsa State Ministry of Training and that outstanding cultural staff from throughout the nation might be in attendance.
David-West, who runs a bookstore and membership, stated the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Authorities, Professor Nimibofa Ayawei, will ship a speech on the theme of YEBAF on the opening.
She added that the competition will place itself as a showcase of the Niger Delta and can enhance cultural actions in a area identified for its huge oil wealth, wealthy mangrove forests, community of creeks and waterways and numerous aquatic life.
Main the nationwide cultural staff who will be a part of their Bayelsa counterparts in boosting the competition are Jahman Anikulapo and Toyin Akinosho of the Lagos E-book and Artwork Pageant (LABAF), stage and movie actor Bimbo Manuel, poet Chijoke Amu-Nnadi and BBC Igbo Senior Correspondent Mazi Nwonwu.
Others embody poet and creator of 'The Unusual Moon of Yenagoa', Samuel Osaze, cultural journalist and creator Anote Ajeluorou and Othuke Ominiabohs of Masobe Books, who will discuss publishing books in an unstable economic system.
Anikulapo would be the session chair on the NBRP guide membership convention. On the identical time, Bayelsa-based author Josef NengiIlagha will communicate on the theme ‘Loving Books and Securing the Important Edge within the Operating of E-book Golf equipment’. The guide membership president, Richard Mammah, will oversee the convention actions and the annual normal assembly.
Commenting additional on the goals of YEBAF, the Pageant Director, David-West, stated that it “is designed to place Bayelsa State and the complete Niger Delta on the forefront of cultural vacation spot. It’s a distinctive cultural competition that engages with books and all cultural expressions within the immensely proficient Niger Delta and Bayelsa State specifically. The competition will allow younger and previous writers and different artists together with filmmakers, visible artists, theatre practitioners, musicians and dancers to showcase their work in an setting of friendliness, interplay and networking amongst native and worldwide cultural staff.”
She added: “The goal is for younger minds to establish their function fashions from the spectrum of proficient and skilled festival-goers and mannequin their way of life after them.”
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